2. Goodbye, Wearables. You Had a Stupid Name Anyway

If you read one article from this week, make this one it. The move from “wearables” to more inconspicuous form of data tracking is inevitable, and it’s rather unfortunate we had the intermediary “craze” (many studies tracking the half-life of wearables use). The real power will come from, as this Wired piece points out, sensors blending into the everyday, and eventually into our bodies themselves. Read More

5. What Happened In 2015

“The most exciting things that have happened in tech in 2015 are happening in verticals like transportation, hospitality, education, healthcare, and maybe more than anything else, finance, where the lessons and playbooks of the consumer gold rush are being used with great effectiveness to disrupt incumbents and shake up industries.” Read More